Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the...
WinHEC: Sinofsky, DeVaan keynotes cover details of Windows 7
Microsoft Windows engineering chiefs Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan are set to take the stage at WinHEC in Los Angeles right now to tell hardware makers what they can expect from Windows 7. You can a...
Web 2.0 Summit: a conversation with venture capitalist John Doerr
Journalist John Heileman is interviewing John Doerr on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit. His first question: Who should Barack Obama name as chief technology officer for the U.S. government? — Doerr sai...
Hackers and Spending Sprees
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer …
Obama Picks High-Tech and Washington Veteran to Transition Team
A veteran of Internet business operations and Washington tech policy was named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, a move that could signal the prominence of high-tech policy in the new...
OMG! iPhone keyboard! OMG!
This hack adds a third-party mini-keyboard to the iPhone, effectively turning Cupertino's darling into a Compaq iPaq circa 2001. Does the iPhone really need a keyboard, people? — After using the iP...
MySpace Music CEO Debuting Tomorrow?
MySpace's very, very long search for someone to run the social network's new music site is just about over: A person familiar with the situation says the company has just about wrapped up negotiations...
Google Street View Easter Egg
Google recently hinted at a new Easter Egg part of Google Maps Street View. And it has surfaced now - it's called Street With a View. From the project description: — On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin...
Rumor: Internal Yahoo memo suggests CEO Jerry Yang may be out
Here's a rumor (printed below) that we got and which has apparently been making the rounds. It's important to note that the NYT has since written a story saying that Yahoo has denied the rumor, and t...
How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works
CNN's holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station's election ce...
LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff
We've just heard from LinkedIn that the Sequoia-backed business network will be cutting 36 of 370 employees, or around 10% of the company. LinkedIn is saying that some of these employees will be reas...
Apple to Pay Departing “Father of iPod” $300,000 Shut-Up Money Annually
“Advisor” to Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a killer gig-if you can swing it. Just ask Tony Fadell. The now former senior vice president of the company's iPod division will collect an annual salary of $300...
Microsoft offers startups software and cloud services for (almost) free
Via its new “BizSpark” program announced November 5, Microsoft is offering startups a variety of Microsoft products and technologies for free. — Microsoft unveiled the program on the first day of th...
Apple delays entry MacBook Air untill after Thanksgiving
Apple is apologizing to customers this week who had placed orders for its new entry-level NVIDIA-based MacBook Airs, explaining that due to an unforeseen issue, it's unlikely to deliver those systems ...
Cisco Quarter Solid, Guidance Terrible (CSCO)
Cisco (CSCO) was the first company to sound the alarms about the recession. So what do they have to say now? — Things aren't getting better, and CEO John Chambers says October was especially terrib...
Android liberation: T-Mobile G1 jailbroken
In the Unix world, “jailbreak” refers to the process where an entire filesystem is open for public access. Under “jail,” only a small subset of a disk can be read from and written to freely. Over th...
Apple tells Mac mini fan to hang in there
Apple appears to be taking its policing of the rumor mill to the phones, in one case dialing a customer who expressed concern over Internet reports on the Mac mini's fate to assure him the situation w...
Netflix Giving Away 48 Hour Streaming Trials With New XBOX 360 Games
Inside the case of the new James Bond XBOX 360 game that came out today is a special insert card that allows you to trial the Netflix streaming service for 48 hours. While the trial won't officially...
Obama Victory Creates Historic Global Demand for Web Content
As the world watched the U.S. campaign coverage and the Obama victory speech on computers seven hours ago, demand for news content hit a historic record, according to data from Akamai, the Cambridge, ...
Steve Jobs Gasses Up The Gulfstream Again
Apple (AAPL) chief Steve Jobs had a busy summer: Launching the iPhone 3G, introducing it into dozens of countries, and shipping almost 7 million of them. Oh, and lots of flying around in his private ...
SanDisk tech promises 100x faster SSD writes
SanDisk on Wednesday said it has developed a way to eliminate one of the few performance bottlenecks of solid-state drives. A new flash file system known as ExtremeFFS uses a page-based method that n...
Palm shares sink on worries about capital
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Palm Inc tumbled on Wednesday after an analyst downgraded the stock and questioned whether the smartphone maker will need to raise additional capital to pull off it...
Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the...
Microsoft Launches Effort to Spark Startups
Microsoft's new BizSpark project is an effort to spur startups and entrepreneurs to use Microsoft technology when launching new companies. Microsoft is giving away software, services and support to s...
Twitter launches groups in Japan Today
Twitter has launched a group and community feature in Japan today, called Twicco.jp. In the demo video I took at the Digital Garage conference you can see it lets users create and follow a group inst...
FCC opens up wireless ‘white spaces;’ Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces-unused spectrum between broadcast channels-in a move the agency hopes paves the way for ‘Wi-Fi on Steroids’.
New Samsung Phone: a Real iPhone Killer?
To hear Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talk about Samsung Electronics' new upgraded smart phone, T*Omnia, Korean consumers will soon get the mother of all smart phones on the planet. “The T*Omnia is at ...
Online Meltdown Update: AOL Ads Down 6% In Third Quarter
More fuel for the online advertising pessimists among you: Advertising revenues at AOL dropped 6% in the third quarter. — This isn't a total shock. The previous quarter, AOL had only been able to m...
How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works
CNN's holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station's election ce...
BlackBerry Bold Is Big, Bulky And Beautiful
Change is a familiar concept in the mobile-phone industry. Most recently, Apple and Google introduced mobile devices with two vital innovations: They run on fast 3G networks and use touch screens. Y...
10 election tweets worth remembering
It was a marathon evening for media buffs as Barack Obama beat rival John McCain to become the United States' first African-American president-elect. You couldn't miss it on Twitter, as the microblog...
Fake Calls gives iPhone users an excuse to leave ackward situations
You know how the situation - you're on a meeting or talking to someone whom you don't particulary like and you would die for an interruption. Usaully nothing happens and you're stuck in a conversatio...
Inside Google's ‘Unofficial’ Hiring Freeze
Google, one of the nation's great growth engines for employment, has essentially stopped hiring for the last month, according to several executives at the company. — A spokesperson at the company sa...
Apple gets raw support for Nikon D90, other SLRs
Apple's photography software now can accommodate raw images from some newer digital cameras through the release of Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.3. — Specifically, the update to iPhoto '...
In Era of Blog Sniping, Companies Shoot First
SAN FRANCISCO — During past downturns, layoffs were mostly a private affair. Big companies tended to issue vague press releases filled with jargon about “downsizing,” and start-ups often gave people ...
Software Fix for MacBook Pro Trackpad Issue “Coming Soon”
Earlier this week, a number of complaints emerged about a trackpad issue found on the new MacBook Pros. PCPro.co.uk relays one customer's experience: … The problem even drew the attention of Apple ac...
What Fadell's Departure Means for Apple
Development chief Tony Fadell's exit underscores concerns about whether Apple is doing enough to groom management talent that could succeed Steve Jobs — At a company as tight-lipped about its inner ...